** The Official Space Flight Thread - The Space Station and Beyond **

[Pigeon_Killer]

Have you got a link by any chance? Thanks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygvK7LDXtIA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lW07SN3YoLI

 

[wildest_jjk]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygvK7LDXtIA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lW07SN3YoLI

Thanks so much, will sneak a watch

 

[Noakesy85]

Watching this now, interesting stuff!!

 

[Pigeon_Killer]

The first stage pulsing on the NASASpaceFlight feed during the descent was amazing.

 

[deuse]

That was great

I just wish they could bring back stage 2 rocket.

 

[wildest_jjk]

Excellent, they make it look so easy!

 

[deuse]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1385993297253081093

Not sure if serious?

 

[TNA]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1385993297253081093

Not sure if serious?

If there was anything to it, surely it would be all over the news.

 

[Malevolence]

Spooky Delta IV Heavy launch in 7 minutes. 1.5 million ibs of thrust is always a good spectacle.

 

[Flibster]

The fireball up the rocket always makes me go 'Ooooh'

Not normally the sort of thing you want to see.

 

[Colonel_Klinck]

Not what you want to see. That looked big enough to do some real damage.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1387012285386969089

 

[wolfie138]

false alarm apparently. wasn't junk, close call was an alien spaceship. driven by a female, hence the near-collision.

 

[Malevolence]

Not what you want to see. That looked big enough to do some real damage.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1387012285386969089

During the live stream of the launch they said it was nothing, just a part of the ship that is designed to come away as Dragon detaches.

 

[Trig]

I heard about them missing one bit, they were getting ready for bed and had to suit back up, missed the report of the other chunk..

 

[Colonel_Klinck]

During the live stream of the launch they said it was nothing, just a part of the ship that is designed to come away as Dragon detaches.

Hmm the trajectory of the object didn't look like it came from the Space Station or Dragon to me. Also the speed differential. I've not seen it mentioned yet in any twitter or youtube channels I subscribe to.

At 10secs in the video there is an object going left to right in the bottom right of the image.

 

[Pigeon_Killer]

During the live stream of the launch they said it was nothing, just a part of the ship that is designed to come away as Dragon detaches.

Yeah, I'm sure they mentioned a water bottle or something but you can see it's from the module around 15 seconds in. Just clickbait news reporting.

 

[Malevolence]

Anyone else watching the Stratolaunch flight? So strange seeing something so large take to the air.

 

[wildest_jjk]

Anyone else watching the Stratolaunch flight? So strange seeing something so large take to the air.

Thanks for sharing, just catching it now. Not seen this before but pretty epic!

 

[Malevolence]

China launches the core section of it's future space station, Tianhe, atop a Long March 5B Y2. Lift off is at around the 52:30 mark.

 

[Malevolence]

Following on from the above video.

https://spacenews.com/huge-rocket-l...entry-following-chinese-space-station-launch/

However this core stage is now also in orbit and is likely to make an uncontrolled reentry over the next days or week as growing interaction with the atmosphere drags it to Earth. If so, it will be one of the largest instances of uncontrolled reentry of a spacecraft and could potentially land on an inhabited area.

Most expendable rocket first stages do not reach orbital velocity and reenter the atmosphere and land in a pre-defined reentry zone. Some other larger, second stages perform deorbit burns to lower altitude to reduce time in orbit and lower chances of collisions with other spacecraft or to immediately reenter the atmosphere.

Just what is it about the Chinese that makes them not give a single **** about anything when it comes to safety concerns? They're an absolute ******* menace.